Bears fans loudly told the league and the league’s boss, Fox, to take their promotional prostitution elsewhere. It must’ve occurred to Fox and the NFL that they might suffer the embarrassment of having their hand-picked singer booed on national television in his hometown.

Whatever, if Cornelison does Sunday before the NFC Championship Game what he did the week before, the fans will be jacked up the way Lovie Smith likes his patronizingly named “Fourth Phase.’’

And that’s where the trouble could start because some Bears fans are too dumb to shut up when the Bears have the ball.

I mean, we might look back and determine this was the most important coin flip in Bears playoff history.

Smith had better hope he gets the choice so he can defer to the second half and save his team the misery of some stupid Bears fans who don’t know when to shut up. It might be even worse now with Bears fans winning the Cornelison-DeWyze tug-of-warblers. Bears fans’ speakers figure to go to 11 now, and then there’s the flyover and the Neanderthal grunting required to talk to Packers fans. Nobody will hear Jay Cutler’s cries for help.

Tell you what, if the Packers get the choice, they ought to kick and kick it out of bounds. Yeah, it’s a risk to give an opponent a short field, but the Packers would have the Bears’ fans working against the Bears’ offense.

This has been going on for a while, but it finally became public last week when it was reported that the Bears practiced indoors with piped-in noise -- for a home game, mind you.

It was reported because the Bears needed to have it reported. They had to get the word out, but they couldn’t tell their fans to shut up. What to do? How do the Bears tell the paying customers they’re idiots?

By using the media, of course. We’re good at telling fans they’re idiots. It’s one of our four major food groups. No amount of in-stadium shushing was working, so the Bears turned to the media that frequently turns on them. That’s the way I connect the dots, and that tells you how desperate they are to create the Soldier Field Library when they have the ball. I believe some of us in the Evil Media have done our job. WSCR-AM 670 reporters Zach Zaidman and Laurence Holmes tweeted and talked about it Friday. I mentioned it in Sunday’s column. Score afternoon annoyance Dan Bernstein blogged about it yesterday. And I’m back at it again today.

This feels like a last, desperate act by the Bears. Fans making noise when the Bears have the ball is not a new development, but it wasn’t much of a problem before because the noise vanished quickly out of the old, wide-open Soldier Field. Poof, gone, like Michael McCaskey’s management skills.

The new Soldier Field spaceship design, which looks as stupid as some fans sound, does a better job of keeping noise in, which has meant worse things for the Bears. The issue became most acute this season with Mike Martz’s demanding play-calls that include constant shifting like he’s working some kind of human Rubik’s Cube. The more the the Bears won, the louder the noise, the worse it got for the offense that would lead the league in wasted timeouts if they kept that stat officially.

So, we have a long-standing streak of fan stupidity, further amped by Bears fans noisily getting the anthem singer of their choice, thus making it more difficult for such learned behavior to become unlearned, and it must be unlearned in a hurry, believe me, because of Green Bay’s defense. The Packers play a 3-4 that has consistently vexed the Bears’ offense with its unpredictable but deadly blitzing ways. That places more importance not only on efficiently relaying the play-call from the sidelines to Cutler, but also allowing Olin Kreutz to be heard out to the tight end spots with his calls for blocking assignments -- and they can’t do it if you people don’t shut up.

Bears fans made enough noise to get the anthem singer of their choice, not the one being pimped by the network to the league of negotiable virtue. Good for Bears fans. Mad props. Or is it mad propz, with a Z? Phat, I got that spelling, but props/propz, I don’t know. Doesn’t matter. The point is not whether I’m tragically hip, but whether Bears fans are tragically flawed.

They are. Some of them, anyway. Stop it. I’ll try to kept this simple for those simpleton fans: Jay Cutler is conducting an orchestra, while Julius Peppers is leading a jailbreak. Wolfgang Amadeus Cutler. Joliet Julius Peppers. Understand?

I have no idea what to even make of this column. I'm not sure what you're point is, other than to keep up your banter of writing negativity. I suppose after last Sunday's efforts, it hasn't left you with much material, considering Cutler and the Bears had the showing they did, but to stoop down to directing the negativities towards the fanbase. Got to admit Rosey, this is pretty low, even for you.

If you don't know how to act when your team has the ball, watch some film of when Peyton Manning has the ball at home. The entire crowd is eerily silent until the ball snaps. This allows Manning to do all of his calls, audibles, signals and everything else.

Wow, an post by Rosenbloom that's actually well thought and serious! I was at the game and agree, there were way too many people (especially when they went for it on 4th and Goal) cheering when the offense was getting the play and up at the line.

I think this game will be better, a lot of the regular STH around me sold their tickets last weekend. Maybe they won't sell them to idiots this time.

as a season ticket holder, I always feel that the crowd is not loud enough when the defense is on the field.... It doesn't ever appear that opposing offenses have trouble getting their line calls in. But only 1 time last game did I notice the bears offense asking the crowd to shutup.... and that was after the big pass play to Olsen when he tripped over his own feet at the 10 yard line.

Arm chair media QB's jumping on a non-story.... so they practice with crowd noise piped in.... and that matter how? So should the crowd be too loud they will be prepared for it? As for Rosenbloom's assumption that the bears leaked the story to try and convey to the crowd they need to shutup.... well, as a season ticket holder, the bears send me all kinds of emails... if it were that big a deal they would have contacted us by now.

LOL - "Afternoon annoyance" Dan Bernstein. That's funny. I like Bernstein in small quantities, but his partner is the KING of annoying. Anyone else think listening to Terry Boers laugh is like nails on a chalkboard?

As a longtime STH, I can attest to the fact that the meatball density is much higher at Bears games than society as a whole.

It's typically the North End Zone and it was more than just "one play" last Sunday. It's very embarrassing as the original NFL franchise to not be able to get cheering right as a fanbase. Olin Kreutz finally waved his arms down while staring down the North End Zone fans last Sunday. They didn't get the message, but maybe some reporting would help, thanks!

I'm guessing these same fans aren't reading articles or following the team during the week though. Seeing as they can't even read the jumbo tron telling them to shut-up.

What happened rosey...your writing used to be good, fun, and insightful. You're becoming that crotchety old man that yells at kids for running in the park. The Bears are in the NFC Championship in a year most believed would end with a 7-9 mark, or worse. Take a look around and enjoy it.

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